Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path
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Literacy in a digital education world and peripheral issues.
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Search Engines and Digital Footsteps | CristinaSkyBox

Search Engines and Digital Footsteps | CristinaSkyBox | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it
How to keep learners safe in this digital space, where every light footstep is digitally recorded and digitally imprinted? There are two search engines which help.
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New Research Reveals Who is Using DuckDuckGo and Why - Search Engine Journal

New Research Reveals Who is Using DuckDuckGo and Why - Search Engine Journal | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it
A new report published this week by SimilarWeb reveals what type of users are opting for the privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo, and why they’re using that search engine over alternatives.

Via Jay, Mark E. Deschaine, PhD
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Help End Google’s Search Monopoly: Use Something Else

Help End Google’s Search Monopoly: Use Something Else | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it
Despite being a free and open platform for expression, commerce and communication, Internet monopolies still exist. That probably says more about us as netizens than it does about the companies in control. Google is so ubiquitous it has reached verb status, and it's what most of us turn to when looking for something online. Monopolies are bad, and…
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Anonymous search tool DuckDuckGo answered 1bn queries in 2013

Anonymous search tool DuckDuckGo answered 1bn queries in 2013 | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it
The 'anti-Google', which searches the web without tracking or monitoring the user, now answers 4m queries a day. By Alex Hern

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Phil Bradley's curator insight, January 10, 2014 8:38 AM

No surprise there!

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4 Ways to Protect Against the Very Real Threat of Ransomware

4 Ways to Protect Against the Very Real Threat of Ransomware | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it
RANSOMWARE IS A multi-million-dollar crime operation that strikes everyone from hospitals to police departments to online casinos.

It’s such a profitable scheme that experts say traditional cyberthieves are abandoning their old ways of making money—stealing credit card numbers and bank account credentials—in favor of ransomware.
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How to use search like a pro: 10 tips and tricks for DuckDuckGo

How to use search like a pro: 10 tips and tricks for DuckDuckGo | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it
You may have spotted a piece in The Guardian last week offering hints and tips on how to “search like a pro” using Google (you might also be interested in checking out this critique of their tips). Thing is, despite its ubiquity in terms of how we talk about the internet, Google isn’t the only…
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How we really search: the end of Google's supremacy?

Presentation given at the AGM of CILIP Hants & Wight on 2nd April 2014 at Southampton University. Covers alternatives to Google fro search, social and professional networks and recent changes to Google....

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DuckDuckGo – Search the Web Without Being Tracked

DuckDuckGo – Search the Web Without Being Tracked | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it
Most commercial search engines like Google and Bing track what you’re searching for because that’s how they know which ads to present to you. In fact, that’s why two people could ...
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